Stewart River to Wenlock River

Camped at Wenlock River crossing (east bank) 2 nights. Lucked a camp in middle of flowering Grevillea (glauca and fern spp), bloodwoods, and fruiting Canarium trees. Great views of Palm cockatoos feeding, first evening and second day. Good numbers of Tawny-breasted and White-streaked HE in amongst Gracefuls, Duskies, and White-throateds. Lots of opportunities master calls.

Full bird list:

Wandering whistling-duck (h)
Black-necked stork
Great egret
Plumed egret
White-necked heron
Straw-necked ibis
Australian white ibis
Australian darter
Little pied cormorant
Whistling kite
Black kite
Brahminy kite
Square-tailed kite
Brown goshawk
Brown falcon
Collared sparrowhawk
Papuan frogmouth (h)
Rainbow bee-eater
Blue-winged kookaburra (much more common than Laughing)
Laughing kookaburra (one dead on PDR north of Archer River)
Forest kingfisher (heard at camp)
Rainbow lorikeet
Pale-headed rosella
Red-winged parrot
Galah
Palm cockatoo
Sulfur-crested cockatoo
Fairy gerygone
Large-billed gerygone
Dusky HE
Graceful HE (everywhere)
Yellow-spotted HE (heard)
White-throated HE
White-streaked HE
Tawny-breasted HE
Yellow HE
Brown-backed HE (only 3 seen)
Blue-faced HE
Silver-crowned friarbird
Helmeted friarbird
Little friarbird
Noisy miner
Peaceful dove
Bar-shouldered dove
Common bronzewing
Wompoo fruit-dove
Red-backed fairy-wren
Rufous fantail
Grey fantail
Northern fantail
Leaden flycatcher
Shining flycatcher (h)
Brush cuckoo
Little bronze-cuckoo
Grey whistler
Rufous shrike-thrush
Grey shrike-thrush
Rufous whistler
Australasian figbird
Yellow oriole
Olive-backed oriole
Great bowerbird
Weebill
Striated pardalote
Red-browed pardalote
Pheasant coucal
Varied triller
Cicadabird (northern race)
White-bellied cuckoo-shrike
Black-faced cuckoo-shrike
Lemon-bellied fly-robin
Magpie-lark
Australian magpie
Pied butcherbird
Black-backed butcherbird
Black butcherbird
Spangled drongo
Pied currawong
Torresian crow
Grey-crowned babbler
White-breasted wood swallow
Red-browed finch (northern race)
Black-throated finch
Double-barred finch (h)
Olive-backed sunbird
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